Paper Roses

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Some families leave you money. Others leave you scars.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Based on a true story <em>Paper Roses</em> is a sweeping emotionally resonant novel from the sister of Traciii Show Hutsona-the New York Times-featured serial con artist-about family secrets inherited trauma and the long shadow of betrayal.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When Abigail Jones learns of her sister Nikki's third arrest she's pulled into a spiral of questions: Was it fate family or something buried even deeper? As Abigail begins to piece together the past she uncovers a trail of silence and survival that stretches across continents and generations.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>From a 1940s Moroccan household where a young maid quietly bears witness to the origins of a generational wound to the sun-washed suburbs of 1970s California and finally to 2023-told through podcast transcripts court documents and splintered memory-Paper Roses follows Abigail's search for answers her confrontation with the sister she thought she knew and her reckoning with a legacy neither of them could escape.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A haunting story of loyalty silence and the cost of breaking free Paper Roses is perfect for readers of The Vanishing Half Little Fires Everywhere and The Paper Palace.</span></p>